antes que isla es volcán / before island is volcano
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antes que isla es volcán / before island is volcano by Raquel Salas Rivera
Gold Medal Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Bilingual PoetryFrom the National Book Award-nominated, Lambda Award-winning poet- a powerful, inventive new collection that looks to the future of Puerto Rico with love, rage, beauty, and hope
Raquel Salas Rivera's star has risen swiftly in the poetry world, and this, his 6th book, promises to cement his status as one of the most important poets working today. In sharp, crystalline verses, written in both Spanish and English versions, antes que isla es volcan daringly imagines a decolonial Puerto Rico.
Salas Rivera unfurls series after series of poems that build in intensity- one that casts Puerto Rico as the island of Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest, another that imagines a multiverse of possibilities for Puerto Rico's fate, a 3rd in which the poet demands his right to a future and its immediate distribution. The verses are rigorous and sophisticated, engaging with literary and political theory, yet are also hard-hitting, charismatic, and quotable ("won't you be sorry? / won't you wish you had a boss? / won't you get restless / with all that freedom?").
These poems tap unflinchingly into the explosive energy of the island, transforming it into protest, into spirit, into art.
Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and editor. His honors include being named the 2018-19 poet laureate of Philadelphia and receiving the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico's Festival de la Palabra. He is the author of five full-length poetry books. He's received a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry and was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award as well as the 2020 Pen America Open Book Award. antes que isla es volcán / before island is volcano, his sixth book, is an imaginative leap into Puerto Rico's decolonial future and is forthcoming from Beacon Press in 2022. He writes and teaches in Puerto Rico.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780807014578 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807014575 |
| Title | antes que isla es volcán / before island is volcano |
| Author | Raquel Salas Rivera |
| Series | Raised Voices Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Beacon Press |
| Year published | 2022-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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